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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weight threads are very predictable on DCUM. Many many people pile on an OP who is concerned about their overweight child and accuse her of being shallow and horrible and about to give their kid an eating disorder. There ARE healthy ways to talk to kids about good eating habits, and to help instill them. I would seriously love to know how many of these overwrought posters attacking OPs like this one are overweight themselves. I would guess the vast majority. Being overweight is a serious issue, and it is not bad parenting to address it - it just needs to be done carefully and sensitively. I think way too many people project their own defensiveness about their weight problems to OPs like this one.[/quote]

I think you need to keep thinking this through and ask yourself why this might be. A few PPs have made it clear: their parents handled it badly and it made any problems they may have had worse.   I am one of the "overwrought" PPs who was raised to consider my body normal and healthy, except for one summer when I came home from college overweight and my mom started giving me crap. It was so unexpected, and so inappropriate.  I made her stop, but it really made me see how different I would be if she'd done that to me every day as a kid, as so many moms do.

Everyone should read Ellyn Sattler to try and improve on this front. Everyone. [/quote]

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